It was a BAD week for University of Denver, after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found evidence that it has for decades paid female law faculty less than male professors.
Lucy Marsh, who has taught at the law school since 1973, filed the complaint. She earns $109,000 a year, compared to the median full professor salary of $149,000.
The university has said that Marsh’s pay is lower, “as a result of her substandard performance in scholarship, teaching and service.” It also said in a statement that it recognizes “that historic gender pay inequity was in place in the 1970’s throughout the United States, when Professor Marsh was hired.”
If the school does not grant back wages and future salary increases to the affected women law professors, the EEOC may sue. The university said it would enter into mediation to resolve the matter.
